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In an interesting contrast to the Christmas special two years ago, Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol: this time it is the Doctor who is grumpy around Christmas because Amy and Rory have left him. Not even the efforts of some friends who know exactly who he is helps, nor does being in Victorian England help. However, he is needed because a psychic snow has invaded the earth. It is alright now, but when it learns how to be human in snow form , well the human race doesn’t have a chance. A young woman named Clara runs into one of these snowmen at the same time she runs into the Doctor. He can’t erase her memory since then she won’t know how to defend herself against the snowmen. She ends up pulling the Doctor back into events against his will. It turns out that the snow has been using a man most of his life, reflecting back at him his darkest thoughts. It also seems it is really the Great Intelligence that is doing this. The Doctor gives in and decides to make Clara his companion – right before she is mortally wounded. Her tears and the tears of the family she works for save the day – the psychic snow reflects back their sorrow turning the snow into rain. She dies – but it turns out the Doctor has met her before. She was the same person who he met during his last encounter with the Daleks. He is determined to find her again . . .

Here are some observations. Grumpy Doctor isn’t much fun. Thank goodness for his friends – who are rather hillarious^^; Clara is great. I can’t wait to see more of her. Love the new look of the Tardis and the Doctor’s new wardrobe, though I wonder if he will modify it a bit now that he isn’t grumpy. This may be the best Christmas special yet for Doctor Who.

The first episode is “The Pandorica Opens”. Vincent van Gogh painted a picture of the Tardis exploding. It goes through a long chain into the future when River finds it. She then goes to the coordinates indicated by the painting – Roman Britain. She leaves a message for the Doctor and he and Amy find her there posing as Cleopatra by Stonehedge. This coordinates is where the Pandorica is – a box made to confine the most dangerous being in the universe. Our heroes find a passage under Stonehedge leading to it. Amy asks the Doctor about the ring she found. He only says that it belonged to a friend and that nothing is truly forgotten. River warns that there is a signal broadcasting out everywhere from the Pandorica and that they will have company soon. River recruits the Roman legion nearby – lead by Rory. Meanwhile, Amy and the Doctor are attacked by a Cyberman but escape from him. When the Doctor discovers Rory he has no explanation for how he is there. Amy doesn’t remember him which is very distressing to Rory, but the Doctor tells him she will remember eventually. The Doctor’s enemies begin arriving and he buys time by getting them to argue about who has the best claim to kill him. Meanwhile he has River go for the Tardis, but someone takes her to Amy’s house in the present day. There River finds a book about Roman Britain and Pandorica. She warns the Doctor but before she can get back to him something takes over the Tardis again and sets it for self destruct with River trapped inside. Meanwhile, the Doctor’s enemies resolve their differences and corner him and put him in the Pandorica box – since they consider him to be the most dangerous person in the universe. The Tardis explodes and is destroying the universe, which they blame on the Doctor. Meanwhile, Amy finally remembers Rory, but he is a plastic human and whatever created takes control of him and he kills Amy.

The second episode is “The Big Bang”. Young Amy draws pictures of stars, but there are no stars in the night sky. Her aunt and teacher are worried about her. She receives a message to go to the national museum, which has the Pandorica and stone figures of the Doctor’s enemies. She hides and after everyone leaves touches the Pandorica, which opens to reveal – adult Amy. The Doctor had used the vortex time manipulator to go back in time to Rory. He hands over his sonic screwdriver and tells Rory how to open the Pandorica and also to put Amy in it since it will then heal her. Rory does so, and low and behold current day Doctor is free and Amy is in the Pandorica. However, it can’t be opened again until it comes in contact with Amy’s DNA. The Doctor jumps to the future when Amy is a little girl after agreeing to let Rory stay to keep watch over the Pandorica – and Amy. This may be the first time the Doctor respects Rory. So the Doctor sets up everything to get young Amy to the Museum. He also gets River from the exploding Tardis which has caused it to be in a time loop. We also learn that even from the beginning people around Amy had disappeared due to the crack and that was why he chose her as a companion. Only one problem – the Pandorica opening revived one of the Daleks who goes after our heroes. They elude him at first and run into a dying Doctor from the future and go to the top of the building where the Doctor looks at the sun – the Burning Tardis. Everyone has disappeared – even young Amy. They are all that is left. The Doctor is shot by the Dalek and he uses the time vortex manipulator and disappears. Next we see him he is back in the Pandorica. He is going to drive the Pandorica into the Tardis, thus starting a new big bang. However, he will be on the wrong side of it and will be erased. This is exactly what happens. And it turns out there have been several points during this season where the Doctor from this point has been the one actually speaking and acting. He keeps telling Amy to remember him, including young Amy – the story of a box so blue and the man inside it. Amy wakes up in the present day and it is her wedding day and everyone in her life is back. However, she senses something is missing. River drops off her diary and it triggers Amy’s memory and with that the Doctor is back. After all the festivities the Doctor is off to travel again and Amy and Rory decide to go with him. He wonders what it means the phrase people keep saying, “Silence will fall,” but then seems to forget about it . . .

The first episode is “Vincent and the Doctor”. In this episode, Amy is down though she doesn’t know why. So the Doctor takes her to go see Vincent van Gogh’s work in an art gallery. He sees an alien figure in a window and decides to investigate. Amy is amazed to meet Vincent. She is even more amazed to discover he wasn’t appreciated in his own time and he is a very troubled man. It also seems there have recently been some murders blamed on him. The Doctor figures it is the alien. Amy convinces Vincent to help. That night Amy is attacked by the alien which only Vincent can see. (It seems he can see a lot of things other people can’t.) He sketches what he saw for the Doctor who goes back to the TARDIS and gets a machine that will allow him to see the alien. The next day Vincent is distraught at first at the thought that the Doctor and Amy will leave him. However, he does agree still to help them and starts painting his picture. He spots the creature and the Doctor goes after it, followed by Amy and Vincent. Good thing too since he can spot the creature best. The doctor figures out the creature is blind, probably why it was abandoned. It ends up impaled on Vincent’s easel, much to the Doctor’s sorrow. It dies. That night Vincent describes to his visitors how he sees the world. The next day before leaving the Doctor and Amy take Vincent to the gallery where his work is and he hears the curator’s response to the Doctor’s question about what he thinks of van Gogh’s work. After taking him back to his time, Amy and the Doctor again return to the gallery, but nothing much has changed. Vincent still is troubled and his life too short. The Doctor says they couldn’t undo everything but they did add good to his life, as demonstrated when a painting now has the inscription “to Amy”.

The second episode is “The Lodger”. For some reason, when the Doctor steps out of the TARDIS into the modern day, the blue box takes off with Amy still inside, leaving the Doctor stranded. One discrete visit to an ATM with the sonic screwdriver later, the Doctor next starts looking for a base of operations. He ends up taking a place with Craig, a normal guy who has a girlfriend but is shy. Craig at first likes the Doctor, but when the Doctor dominates in football (soccer) and sparks the interest of the girlfriend and encourages her to follow her dream of going to Africa, Craig is no longer so happy. Meanwhile, the Doctor manages to create a communications device. The reason the TARDIS acted the way it did is there is a temporal distortion in the area. The Doctor can’t use Time Lord equipment for the most part, so his room ends up looking quite interesting, as Craig notices when he comes to confront the Doctor. It turns out that people have been disappearing whenever they go up to the second story of Craig’s flat where supposedly another tenant lives. The girlfriend gets lured up there and the Doctor and Craig come to the rescue just in time. There never was a second story to Craig’s place. A ship crashed there and has been drawing people to try to pilot it, anyone who wants to escape their life. It recognizes the Doctor as an acceptable candidate, but the Doctor warns if he touches the controls it would destroy the solar system. He has Craig touch it since he doesn’t want to leave but stay with his girlfriend. The two reconcile and the three escape the ship. Craig gives the Doctor a key saying he can come by any time. The Doctor tells Amy to write the note that will lead him to Craig’s house. However, when she goes through his coat pockets looking for a pen she finds the ring Rory gave her . . .

The first episode is “The Hungry Earth”. Rory convinces Amy to keep their engagement ring on the TARDIS to keep it safe.Our heroes travel to a near future time when scientists are doing deep mining. Interestingly enough, a guy went missing from the site without a trace. The guy’s father-in-law is worried, as is the main scientist, while the guys wife and son are worried about graves disappearing. Tremors happen and Amy gets sucked into the earth. The Doctor realizes that there are reptile-humans far underground and the drill woke them. The boy gets taken and the grandfather is stung by one of the reptile-humans, but they capture one. The Doctor decides to go underground to find Amy and negotiate. The others aren’t entirely happy with this. (Except Rory – he knows to listen to the Doctor by now.) The Doctor expects to find a small colony. He finds a whole civilization instead. Most of them are still in hibernation, but the drill set off the alarms and woke the warriors, who look down on humans and think the Earth is theirs.
The second episode is “Cold Blood”. The Doctor and the scientist are captured. The warrior leader wants to kill them. Fortunately, Amy and the first guy captured escape. The good news is that the reptile-human doctor is more reasonable than the warriors. He ends up waking up the leader. Negotiations begin between humans and reptile-humans. And yes, the boy is found and freed. The bad news is that the captured reptile-human goaded the wife into killing her. Realizing this means a probable attack by the reptile-humans, they rig the drill to destroy the underground oxygen supply. When the warrior leader realizes this, she wakes up the other warriors to attack the surface and she kills the reptile-human doctor. However, the main leader rigs things so most of the warriors go back into hibernation. He sets events in motion so that they will be sealed off from the surface. They will try again to be friends with humans in another thousand years. The grandfather decides to stay behind so he can be cured and the scientist decides to stay with him. The family races to the TARDIS before it is sealed. The others follow, but they see a crack in time again. The Doctor manages to pull something out of the crack. The warrior leader ends up shooting at the Doctor but hitting Rory. He dies and then his body starts to be absorbed by the crack. There is nothing the Doctor can do. Once on board, he tries to help Amy remember but a jolt in the TARDIS breaks her concentration. The Doctor later finds the engagement ring . . . The Doctor encourages the family to prepare humanity for their next encounter with their reptilian cousins. The Doctor looks at what he pulled out of the crack in time, and it is a piece from a clearly destroyed TARDIS . . .

The first episode is “The Vampires of Venice”. Amy has feelings for the Doctor. The Doctor isn’t comfortable with that at all on several levels, starting with the fact that she is supposed to marry Rory the next day! So he goes to crash Rory’s stag party and drags the two lovebirds off to romantic ancient Venice to get Amy to fall in love with Rory again. Only one problem – there are vampires in Venice! At least they look and act like vampires. The leader, a lady, runs a boarding school for girls who never go back to their families again. She apparently has a son. The Doctor and crew runs into a distraught father trying to get to his daughter. Amy talks them into having her enter the school. This doesn’t work so well since the vampires are actually aliens and it is fairly obvious to them what is going on. The Doctor and Rory break in. The girl whose father is looking for her also helps Amy escape but doesn’t herself. She is thrown into the river and eaten. The Doctor later talks to the head lady. She says her world was destroyed and only she and her sons survived so she is making daughters for her sons. The Doctor would be sympathetic – if she had been more sympathetic of her victims. Our heroes retreat to her father’s place. They are attacked there. Her father sacrifices himself to save the others and destroy the vampires, er, aliens. But it is too late. The head lady has started a machine which will drown Venice. Amy and Rory are attacked by her son. Between the two of them they kill him and their love is rekindled. Meanwhile, the Doctor confronts the lady. He figures out a way to switch her machine. Objecting to this, the two fight. In the process her gizmo that makes her look human is broken in the human setting. The Doctor stops the rain. Defeated and unable to change back she leaps into the water and is eaten.

The second episode is “Amy’s Choice”. This is a complicated episode. In half of it, Amy and Rory are married in an idyllic town and are expecting their first child. The Doctor comes for a visit. Life seems perfect. In the other half, Amy, Rory, and the Doctor are in the Tardis. They are confronted by someone who calls himself the Dream Lord. He wants them to decide which of the two worlds is real. Oh, and life-threatening situations arise in each. If they die in the dream they will wake but if they die in the real world they will die. In the town, it turns out the elderly people have been possessed by aliens and are killing everyone else. In the Tardis, the Tardis looses power and is headed towards a cold star in which it will crash soon. They go back and forth between the two possible realities. At one point the Dream Lord isolates Amy and tells her she has to choose between the Doctor and Rory. Who does she really love? In the world where the elderly people possessed by aliens, Rory is killed. This makes Amy realize that she doesn’t want to live in a world where Rory is dead so she chooses the crashing Tardis world. There she and the Doctor wake up with Rory and the power comes back on. The Doctor flies the Tardis into the star. It turns out both worlds were not real. The culprit of this adventure was some sort of psychotropic dust. And yes, the Doctor knows who the Dream Lord is – himself, or rather a dark version of himself. So our heroes go off again. Only the Dream Lord is still there inside the Doctor . . .

The first episode is “The Time of Angels”. The Doctor gets a message from River Song, who he met once with Donna in his last incarnation while she is quite familiar with the Doctor. The Doctor and Amy go to rescue her. It turns out River is with an expedition of clerics who are investigating a spaceship crash. River was on the ship, but did not cause the crash. It turns out there is a weeping angel on the ship. The first thing that goes wrong is the Angel manages to infect a video of itself and trap Amy. Fortunately, she manages to stop the Angel and get out of the trailer. The biggest problem the expedition has is the fact that the ship crashed on a site full of statues. The only way to reach the ship is through the maze of statues. They divide into groups. Amy is still affected from having looked at the video of the angel. River and the Doctor realize that the race who built the statues had two heads, but all the statues have only one. They are all weeping angels. Meanwhile, several of the party have been killed by angels and the angels use the voice of one of them to talk with the Doctor. Basically, they want off the planet. Something scares them. And a Time Lord would be just what they need. The Doctor of course refuses. The party is trapped, but by this time they are underneath the ship and the Doctor has a plan . . .

The second episode is “Flesh and Stone”. The group jumps on the Doctor’s orders and the Doctor shoots the gravity control, getting them onto the ship. The angels follow and the Doctor orders them into the oxygen factory, a large area forested by trees. About this point the Doctor realizes that Amy just isn’t still affected by the angel, the angel is possessing her and killing her. He gets her to close her eyes which stops the countdown. The Doctor, River, commander, and several men go on ahead. Several stay behind with Amy. The Doctor has an interesting conversation about trust with Amy. His party heads towards the main control room. It is revealed that River is a prisoner for killing someone and her work here may grant her a pardon. Meanwhile, the solders with Amy see a strange light. As they investigate, they not only disappear, only Amy can remember. Amy is left alone. River and the Doctor are also the only other survivors as well in the end. Amy opens her eyes to the light long enough to see it is like the crack in her room. The Doctor tells Amy over the communicator to come to him, explaining that it erases people through time. Hence why the angels are scared of it. He and River have determined the date of the crack’s center-point, but the only way to close it is either for the Doctor to sacrifice himself or for the Angels to get in there. Amy, with eyes closed, makes it only part way. Fortunately, River is able to telaport Amy the rest of the way. The Doctor has them all attach themselves to various things firmly and he switches the ship’s gravity so all the angels fall into the crack. This also deals with the angel in Amy. River is retrieved by more clerics. She tells the Doctor she killed the best man she ever knew and says they will meet again when Pandorica opens. In the TARDIS Amy asks to go home since there is something the Doctor should know – the next day is her wedding with Rory. However, she is now in love with the Doctor. . .

The first episode is “The Eleventh Hour”. The newly regenerated Doctor is falling to Earth in a damaged TARDIS. He crash lands in the yard of a girl named Amelia who is worried about a crack in her wall. She is not really phased by the Doctor at all, even when he proves to be a picky eater. Who knew custard and fish sticks went together? She has no parents and lives with her aunt. He takes a look at the crack in the wall and they hear someone looking for Prisoner Zero. The Doctor opens the crack and they see a huge eye, the jailer, who asks about Prisoner Zero again. The Doctor closes the crack in the wall, but since the crack is really two points in time that were never supposed to meet, it still exists. The Doctor also feels like he is forgetting something, but is distracted by the TARDIS which is now clanging a warning bell. If the Doctor doesn’t go to space and fix it it will destroy itself. Amelia wants to come, but the Doctor says it is too dangerous but that he will be back in five minutes. Amelia packs her bag and waits. The Doctor returns a bit later than anticipated, knowing what he missed now, but gets hit by a cricket bat. He is confronted by a police woman. When the Doctor asks about Amelia she says Amelia doesn’t live there any more. The Doctor asks her how many rooms there are on the floor – five. But there are really six. One can only be seen out of the corner of the eye. The girl goes in the door against what the Doctor says. She finds his sonic screwdriver on a table in there. Yep, Prisoner Zero is in there and the policewoman flees the snakelike creature. What emerges after her is a man and his dog. A voice above from a spaceship tells Prisoner Zero to vacate the human residence or it will be destroyed. The doctor and the lady make it out of the house. It turns out the lady is not a policewoman – she is a kiss-a-gram. And she is Amy Pond – Amelia. The Doctor is twelve years late. The TARDIS is repairing and remodeling itself and won’t let the Doctor in. So the Doctor and Amy flee. The alien spaceship (or spaceships) is broadcasting on every channel. Prisoner Zero comes after the Doctor. He tries to get the alien’s attention with his sonic screwdriver, but it breaks before the aliens can find Prisoner Zero. Prisoner Zero escapes. The Doctor realizes the aliens plan to destroy Earth if they don’t get Prisoner Zero back in twenty minutes. He convinces Amy to believe in him that long. Everyone sees the alien spaceship and is taking pictures of it – except for one young man who is a nurse. The Doctor asks him what he is taking pictures of and the guy, Rory, says he is taking pictures of people who are in the comma unit in the hospital but that he has seen walking around in broad daylight. Prisoner Zero can join the consciousness of those whose brains are not active and take their appearance and in this form registers as human. The Doctor tells Amy and Rory to get back to the hospital and get everyone out and he borrows a computer and plants a computer virus using Rory’s phone. He gets to the hospital just in time to save Rory and Amy who have been discovered by Prisoner Zero. At the command of the virus, everything in the world says zero. The path of the virus leads back to Rory’s phone, which has the images of all the forms Prisoner Zero can take. So Prisoner Zero takes young Amy’s form (with the Doctor) and Amy collapses. The Doctor tells Amy to picture Prisoner Zero the way she first saw it. Prisoner Zero copies this and is captured, but not before telling the Doctor that when Pandorica opens silence will fall. The Doctor then contacts the aliens to come talk with them and he basically gets after them for threatening a protected planet like Earth and scares them off by letting them know who he really is. The TARDIS key returns and the Doctor rushes off to go into it and go off. The Doctor returns – two years later now. He invites Amy with him this time. Amy agrees when she realizes he is lonely.

The second episode is “The Beast Below”. So the Doctor decides to take Amy several millenia into the future. The sun has grown too hot for Earth so the various nations constructed basically world ships to carry them away to a new home. The Doctor and Amy of course arrive on the British ship. However, not all is well there. People disappear. Secrets are kept, even from the queen (who the Doctor and Amy eventually meet – Queen Elizabeth X, or Queen Liz). There are no vibrations on a ship that is moving. Actually, in all fairness the people are allowed to know what is really going on, but most choose to forget. The rest are sent below. The Doctor and Amy encounter one girl whose friend was sent below. They investigate with her help and eventually the help of Queen Liz. In the end they are all taken below. The truth is the ship is being carried along by a star whale. They keep injuring the whale’s brain to get it to speed up or turn or whatever. The Doctor is about to make the whale a vegetable – better than being conscious of the pain and he can’t let everyone aboard die, but Amy stops him. She realizes based on the story of the star whale that it voluntarily came when it heard the cry of the children (it never harmed children, no matter its pain) and they don’t have to hurt it to get it to move. So the Doctor seems happy to have Amy with him. He gets a call from Winston Churchill. So it is to World War II England next. However, there is a crack on the worldship that matches the crack from Amy’s wall . . .

The third episode is “Victory of the Dalecks”. The Tardis really has issues with timing. The Doctor and Amy arrive three months late! Winston doesn’t mind. He wants to show off his latest weapon that will defeat the Nazis – ironsides. However, the Doctor recognizes them as Darleks. Only these Darleks seem quite passive. Winston of course just wants to win the war and doesn’t realize there are larger issues. Confusing everything is there is a professor who claims to have invented the ironsides and has detailed plans and everything. He also has plans for other things like getting up into space and forcefields to keep air in. One thing that concerns the Doctor is that Amy has no memory of the Darleks, even though they stole Earth and everyone saw it. The Doctor confronts the Darleks and this gives the Darleks what they want – proof from their greatest enemy of what they are. See, they have a ship hiding near by in space and it is capable of recreating the Darleks, but these injured Darleks are no longer considered pure. So the new Darleks are made, the old are destroyed. They shine light on London, exposing it to attack. Some RAF pilots go into space to attack. The Doctor, who is up there, manages to use the TARDIS to disable the shield. So the Darleks threaten to destroy Earth. The professor is really a robot and he has a bomb in him. So the Doctor is forced to stand down. He races back to Earth and he and Amy help the professor think human thoughts, especially of love, defusing the bomb. But the Darleks escape, much to the Doctor’s distress. Still, all ends well enough. The Doctor lets the professor live since he has human thoughts and emotions. And Churchill is left to endure the remainder of World War II. However, there is another crack like the one from Amy’s room . . .

So it turns out everyone on Earth is having nightmares they can’t remember – except for Wilfred. It is a nightmare of the Master’s laughter. He runs into a lady who talks a bit about the Doctor then disappears. The Doctor goes to visit the Ood who have summoned him. They too have been disturbed by these nightmares. More, they see a man and young lady the Doctor doesn’t recognize, Lucy (the Master’s human wife) and he sees that a ring survived the Master’s death. But according to the Ood there is more, something coming back – the end of time itself. At the prison where Lucy is she is brought before those humans who follow the Master and using some of the DNA from him left on her among other things they bring him back. However, Lucy is prepared for this and those who listened to her made a counter formula which destroys the prison. The man, Arrowsmith, and his daughter Abigail, are billionaires and see proof that the Master escaped. Meanwhile, Wilfred is worried and enlists his fellow senior citizens in hunting for the Doctor. The Doctor does arrive chasing after the Master whose body didn’t come back properly and is now literally burning itself up. The Master escapes just as Wilfred shows up. Wilfred is worried about the dreams. He is also worried about Donna who doesn’t remember the Doctor. He says Donna is engaged again. The Doctor is very firm that she can’t remember him or her mind will overload. He also tells Wilfred about the prophecy of his death. He wonders how Wilfred keeps showing up. The Doctor goes off and finds the Master. They fight a bit and then they talk. The master constantly hears sounds in his head but the Doctor hears nothing until he links with the Master. No wonder the master is crazy. The Doctor tries to ask the Master for help but all the Master can think about is the noise. That is when they are found by Arrowsmith’s men and the Master is captured by then. The next day is Christmas. Wilfred sees the lady he saw at the beginning on the TV who tells him the only way to save the Doctor is for the Doctor to take up arms and also warns Wilfred not to tell the Doctor about her. Donna gave Wilfred a book by Arrowsmith for Christmas. Wilfred gets his gun. He hears the TARDIS and sneaks off to go help the Doctor. They go to the Arrowsmith estate. The Doctor hides the TARDIS. Inside, Arrowsmith shows the Master what he found from the ruins of Torchwood – an alien healing device that could give immortality. The Master agrees to get it to work. Unknown to anyone, two aliens who look like green cacti are there to salvage the machine. The Doctor discovers them and in asking about the machine realizes the Master plans to use it. The Doctor rushes upstairs but is too late – the Master gets to the machine and uses it not only to make his mind visible to everyone like it is in Wilfred’s nightmares, but to turn every human on the planet into himself. Wilfred is saved because the Doctor manages to get him into a sealed containment chamber that protects him. Far away, there are still Time Lords . . .

It is the last day of Gallifrey inside the Time Lock. The Lord President won’t accept this. He knows two children of Gallifrey survived – the Master and the Doctor. As a child he had planted a pattern in the Master’s mind so the Time Lock is not sealed. The President plans to use this mental link to get out. So now Wilfred and the Doctor are captured by the Master. Again the Doctor offers to try and help the Master be cured and he also asks the Master’s help to stop what is coming, but the Master thinks he is the prophecy. He also decides with everyone on the planet now having his mind, including the sound, they could follow it to its end. The cacti help the Doctor and Wilfred to escape to the basement and from there they escape to their salvage ship. The Doctor destroys the controls before the Master can track them and scrambles the telaport, cacti’s displeasure. Once the Master makes contact, the President sends to Earth a diamond, a five-point star only found on Gallifrey. Wilfred tries to convince the Doctor to take his gun, but the Doctor refuses. Then the Master contacts them telling the Doctor what he found. This drives the Doctor into action. He takes the gun. He activates the ship which he had already repaired. He sends the ship towards Earth, knowing that the Master will try to shoot it down. They make it over Arrowsmith’s mansion and the Doctor falls down to Earth, but it is too late. The Master has already used the diamond to make the link to Gallifrey physical. So Time Lords, including the President (who restores humanity), arrive – as does Gallifrey, and all the nightmare of the Time War on it. It turns out that the Time War drove the Time Lords collectively mad. They created horrible creatures. Finally, the President decided the only thing to do was for the Time Lords to ascend to a purely mental plain – in which process everything else would be destroyed. That is why the Doctor created the Time Lock. The Master is okay with this – until he learns that while the President used him he has no intention of taking the Master with him. By this time the Doctor has recovered enough to use Wilfred’s gun but he can’t decide whether to shoot the Master or the President. One of the Time Lords that hid her face shows it. It is the same woman Wilfred saw before. Seeing her saddens the Doctor but gives him resolve to choose a third path – he destroys the mechanism that brought the Time Lords back. The President is about to kill the Doctor for this, but the Master attacks the President for all that was done to him. Earth is saved and somehow the Doctor survives. That is when he hears four knocks from Wilfred who trapped himself in the sealed room to get someone else out. The power source, nuclear in power, is now unstable – and will go directly into the chamber. The Doctor is anguished by this but then realizes he is starting to act like the other Time Lords and chooses to let Wilfred out and to be hit by the radiation. He starts to regenerate, but still has some time so he takes Wilfred home and promises to see him again. He then goes visiting people. He saves Martha and Mickie from a Soltairan sniper. He saves Sarah Jane’s son from being hit by a car. He introduces Captain Jack to the young sailor who survived the fall of the spaceship Titanic. He visits the book signing of the gal who wrote the story of her great-grandmother’s diary. This great-grandmother was the human he fell in love with while he was human right before World War I. He visits on Donna’s wedding day to give a present, though only Wilfred and Donna’s mother see him. He then goes to see Rose at New Years the year she first met him. The Doctor makes it back to the Tardis encouraged by the Ood and the song of the Universe. Then reluctantly he regenerates. That is probably the reason why the TARDIS is damaged. The old Doctor is gone, a new Doctor has now taken his place . . .

The Doctor arrives at the first human outpost on Mars. He meets the crew lead by Captain Adelaide Brook. Unfortunately, the Doctor remembers this is the day the base was destroyed by a nuclear blast. The thing is, this disaster was directly responsible for spurring humanity further into space exploration. It is a fixed point in time and cannot be altered. However, he finds himself staying when Captain Brook is unable to contact anyone in the biodome. It turns out that the two crew members there have been infected by a water virus, causing them to release tons of water. Turns out one of the water filters to the glacier was not set properly and an alien race left the virus there. The Doctor and Captain Brook observe one of the infected crew and learn that they want to get to water-rich Earth, which they can’t allow. They seal the rest of the base off. Too bad water gets in way too easily. Captain Brook prepares to abandon base and forces the Doctor to tell what he knows. He leaves to go back to the TARDIS, but it is too late. The virus is loose again, including infecting their pilot. He destroys their shuttle before he completely succumbs, stranding the virus and the remaining uninfected crew members. Hearing their cries, the Doctor returns. Captain Brook sets the base for self-destruction. The Doctor uses a robotic dog to bring the TARDIS. He saves three of the crew who were uninfected, including Captain Brooks. They arrive on Earth in front of Captain Brooks’ home. She is quite upset. What gives the Doctor the right to interfere in what was supposed to happen? The Doctor really gets very prideful at this point. She goes into her home then kills herself, thus ensuring the same overall results would still happen. The Doctor sees a vision of an Ood and realizes he went to far. He goes into the TARDIS and hears knocking. He leaves before it reaches four . . .

A gal named Lady Christina pulls off a heist in the modern time. I think she does it just for the thrills. Who should she run into on the bus she gets on to while getting away than the Doctor? He is tracking a wormhole, which lo and behold they shortly go through. They find themselves on a desert world. The bus driver tries to go back through the wormhole, but he is killed. Seems the bus protected them going through. Of course now the bus is damaged. The bus driver’s skeleton is found by police who contact UNIT. The Doctor gets into contact with UNIT as well. There are a number of passengers besides the Doctor and Christina, including one lady who is psychic. Some of the passengers attempt to fix the bus while Christina and the Doctor go exploring and spot a coming storm. Actually the storm is caused by alien stingrays who crate wormholes to go from system to system and devour entire ecosystems. This is confirmed when the Doctor and Christina find some friendly aliens who were caused to crash land by the alien swarm. The Doctor fears the swarm’s next target will be Earth. When the leader of UNIT hears about this, the on site commander orders the wormhole shut, but the technician who the Doctor has primarily been talking with refuses. Christina meanwhile manages to retrieve a power source that will help get the bus running again, but in the process awakes some alien stingrays. The friendly aliens are killed and the Doctor and Christina barely make it back to the bus in time. He uses the crystal and a gold cup Christina stole to get the bus working again. The wormhole is shut as soon as the bus is through. A few stingrays get through, but nothing UNIT can’t handle. Christina wants to go with the Doctor but he refuses, having recently lost his companions. She is arrested but the Doctor covertly gives her a tiny hand with the sonic screwdriver to escape, much to the authorities’ distress. I think the Doctor likes her spirit^^; However, before he leaves the psychic lady tell him that his song is ending, that something is returning, and that he will knock four times.